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PHOENIX -- Pittsburghs starter lasted one inning. Mike James Jersey . The closer wasnt available. The road trip, a disaster to that point. With a little grit, good pitching from the bullpen and clutch hitting, the Pirates pulled out a victory that could be a big confidence booster before they head back home. "Just duct tape, chicken wire and scrapped for eight innings and get it done," Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said after the Pirates 5-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks Tuesday night. With one win in seven road games and three on the season overall, the Pirates were facing stiff odds against the Diamondbacks and ace Ian Kennedy. They went into the game without closer Joel Hanrahan after he tweaked his hamstring the last time out. Starter Jeff Karstens was gone after one inning due to right shoulder inflammation. Pittsburgh didnt buckle, though, roughing up Kennedy early, scoring four of its runs with two outs and getting eight solid, pieced-together innings from the bullpen. Garrett Jones hit a solo homer off Kennedy in the sixth inning and drove in three runs. Andrew McCutchen had the final of Pittsburghs two-out hits, lining a run-scoring single off Bryan Shaw (0-2) in the ninth inning. Jason Grilli (1-1) gave up a solo homer to John McDonald in the eighth inning, but picked up the win. Juan Cruz, Pittsburghs sixth pitcher of the night, picked up his first save since 2009 by working a perfect ninth. "We put some runs on the board, scratched and clawed," said Pirates reliever Tony Watson, who pitched 2 1-3 scoreless innings. "The final results all that matters and we won." The Diamondbacks played without right fielder Justin Upton due to a sore thumb and lost centre fielder Chris Young in the fourth inning to a right shoulder injury after a hard crash into the wall. Upton has been bothered by a left thumb injury since jamming it into a base against the Giants on April 8. He played Monday against the Pirates, but was out of the lineup for the second game of the series after having his thumb drained. Young, the Diamondbacks leading hitter at .405 with five homers and 13 RBIs, was injured while tracking down a fly ball by Pedro Alvarez in left-centre in the fourth. Young leaped to catch the ball and slammed into the wall shoulder-first, falling in a heap onto the warning track. He lay there for several minutes as team medical personnel attended to him and gingerly walked to the dugout after being helped up. The team said Young will have an MRI on Wednesday. "I didnt think I was going to hit the wall," Young said. "As I was going down, I hit my shoulder. It got tight on me. It is a little tighter now -- I cant lift it." Kennedy was expected to have an easy night against the light-hitting Pirates. A 21-game winner who finished fourth in the 2011 NL Cy Young voting, the right-hander entered the game with an eight-game winning streak that dated to last year, including his first two starts this season. The Pirates came in as baseballs worst-hitting team at .188 and trotted out a lineup that had six players under .200. Of course they got to Kennedy early. McCutchen got it started with a two-out single in the first inning and came in two batters later, when Jones lined a run-scoring single to left-centre. Kennedy continued to scuffle after that. Pittsburgh put together another two-out rally in the third inning against him, tying it at 3-all on Neil Walkers run-scoring single and an RBI double by Jones. Jones gave the Pirates the lead in the sixth, hitting Kennedys first pitch out to the pool deck in right-centre. Kennedy didnt come out for the seventh after allowing four runs on eight hits. "All my command, off-speed was terrible, changeup was terrible, pretty much one of those days," said Kennedy, who had allowed four earned runs his first two starts combined. "You know in the first inning that it is pretty much going to be a long day." McDonald got Kennedy off the hook for the loss with his solo homer off Grilli in the eighth, his first with the Diamondbacks. The Pirates answered in the ninth with their final act of clutch hitting. Pittsburgh leadoff hitter Alex Presley got it started by legging out an infield single that went off Shaws glove, then took third on pinch hitter Casey McGehees single the next at-bat. McCutchen fought off a couple of good pitches from Shaw and put Pittsburgh ahead with a looping single that fell just in front of Willie Bloomquist in left for his fourth hit to easily score Presley. "We had better at-bats across the board from a lot of guys," Hurdle said. "Really battling and grinding on offence tonight. Just one more run than them." 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The Prince George Cougars and Regina Pats have both entered agreements to transfer ownership, the WHL said Wednesday in a statement.DORTMUND, Germany - The only thing left to resolve in Group D of the Champions League is which team will finish top, Arsenal or Borussia Dortmund.Dortmund has 12 points and needs a point from its last match against Anderlecht to make sure of finishing as group winner — unless Arsenal wins at Galatasaray by more than six goals.Anderlecht will finish third no matter what and will join the Europa League round of 32 after the break.Galatasaray cannot advance to the next round.Here are some things to know about Tuesdays matches:___GOALKEEPING CHANGEBorussia Dortmund had found itself in a bizarre situation — among the top 16 clubs in Europe but struggling in the Bundesliga. The 1-0 victory over Hoffenheim lifted the 2011 and 2012 champion out of the drop zone.Jurgen Klopp made several changes for Fridays win, leaving four World Cup winners on the bench, including Roman Weidenfeller, Germanys back-up goalkeeper in Brazil. Mitch Langerak, an Australian, played his 12th Bundesliga match and notched his 10th win whilst keeping a clean sheet.Klopp has been noncommittal about the future but Langerak, Weidenfellers lontgtime understudy, could end up with a permanent promotion. Weidenfeller said it was a coaching decision I have to accept.____GUNDOGAN BACKIlkay Gundogan was considered one of Germanys top midfielders until a back injury sidelined him. Gundogan decided against surgery and spent 14 months recovering.The midfielder is back just in time to help Dortmund out of the doldrums. Gundogan scored the winning goal against Hoffenheim with a rare header but also provided the much needed creative spark and the passing he had been known for before his injury.I just have to get used now again tto the full load but my back is fine, Gundogan said. Donovan Smith Jersey. Defender Mats Hummels described Gundogan as a fantastic player who was one of the best in his role until the injury.____LESSON LEARNTArsenal has learnt to its cost the perils of finishing second in a Champions League group.The English club was runner-up in three of its last four campaigns, earning last-16 matches against Bayern Munich twice and Barcelona. Arsenal lost all three encounters.Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger may, though, choose to rest star forward Alexis Sanchez after saying the Chile international was in the red zone in reference to his fitness before playing him for the full ninety minutes in Saturdays 3-2 loss at Stoke in the Premier League.____GALATASARAY SEEKS PRESTIGEWith only one point from five games so far, Galatasaray has been eliminated from European competitions for the season and has sacked Italian coach Cesare Prandelli.For the Turks, Tuesdays match against Arsenal is simply a matter of prestige and a vote of confidence in their new manager Hamza Hamzaoglu, the assistant national team coach who replaced Prandelli last week.We play against Arsenal — it is an important game from the point of view of prestige and for our self-confidence, Hamzaoglu said.____ANDERLECHT HURTINGAnderlecht has nothing to play for and is seeking to end a miserable run that has seen it losing twice and drawing once in its last three Belgian league matches.However, Anderlecht remains unbeaten in its away matches in the group, drawing both in Istanbul and coming from three goals down to draw 3-3 against Arsenal in London.The Belgian team will be without midfielder Steven Defour because of a calf injury. 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